My Diary and how I will pay myself to exercise
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Fade Away
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Thats the thing Veronica, I did read the reviews. There weren't a lot of reviews but they were all good. I had been doing my ebay search based on wii consoles in Australia only, and the seller was in Queensland. This morning we received an email in broken english from someone in China providing bank details for payment.
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~Tutti~Frutti~
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Hey,
Your motivational ideas make me laugh!! It's certainly different!
Whatever works for you! Keep at it. x
Your motivational ideas make me laugh!! It's certainly different!
Whatever works for you!
Keep at it. x
Fade Away
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Hey,
Your motivational ideas make me laugh!! It's certainly different!
Whatever works for you!
It's not really that different Tutti Frutti. How many times have we all read or heard that the way to lose weight and keep it off is moderation and balance. We are constantly told to reward ourselves for our little victories. I am just trying to find a way to get myself motivated and to flick that "off" (eating) switch in my head back "on" By putting it down in writing and coming on here I have found this week that I have regained my missing motovation.
As for the eating/dieting part. I know that I gained this weight purly by eating too much in between meals, and going back for second (and sometimes third helpings). So eliminating the bad behaviours should see me slowly return to a more respectable weight without me having to live off rabbit food and obsese over how many calories and carbs I am eating.
No crash diets and no fads. Its all about a balanced healthier lifestyle, just like I use to have.
Thanks for the support, it all helps
Fade Away
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They are back on ebay again today. The same deal but under another users name, this time they are in NSW. They have 32 "buy now" wii sports consoles for sale at $225. There are few changes from yesterdays listing but I know it is the same seller, so have reported it to ebay.
It will be interesting to see how long ebay take to get it off the site.
Fade Away
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Been a fairly good day, even if I didn't get much exercise in. Haven't eaten a single thing I feel guilty about.
Saw the hypnotist. It was a bit like a yoga relaxation session. Before starting the actual session there was a councilling session to identify my main issuses and triggers. Once the session started I was fully awake but very relaxed throughout the session. In my mind I had to go into a room in my head and look for the switches that we had discussed. I then had to either turn them off or on. After fixing the switches I had to leave the room and go down the hall to another room (in my head). There was a table full of the foods that I knew I no longer wanted to eat. I had to wipe all the food off the table. It was bizzare because I could see it all happening, and even as the food was sliding off the table onto the floor, I was adding more foods that I had forgotten to identify, such as great big fat pork chops. Once the table was cleared, I then had to imagine it with all the foods that I would like to eat. I could see strawberrys and watermelons as clear as day. Lots of fruit and healthy foods.
The Hypnotist was telling me that the foods I use to crave would become invisibile to me, I would see them but it would be like I was looking through them as they no longer had any importance to me.
What was really bizzare was how I felt afterwards. I had to go into the city shopping. Normally I spent most of my visit conscious of the food halls and wendys milk shakes. I didn't bat an eyelid.
I had to stop at the supermarket on the way home to get some strawberrys and fish for tea. Freaky.
Be interesting to see how long it all lasts. BTW she gave me an affirmation CD to play in the car, and a relaxation cd I have to play at home
It's been hot here today, so we waited for it to cool down before OH and I walked the dogs around the block together. Very nice walk.
Saw the hypnotist. It was a bit like a yoga relaxation session. Before starting the actual session there was a councilling session to identify my main issuses and triggers. Once the session started I was fully awake but very relaxed throughout the session. In my mind I had to go into a room in my head and look for the switches that we had discussed. I then had to either turn them off or on. After fixing the switches I had to leave the room and go down the hall to another room (in my head). There was a table full of the foods that I knew I no longer wanted to eat. I had to wipe all the food off the table. It was bizzare because I could see it all happening, and even as the food was sliding off the table onto the floor, I was adding more foods that I had forgotten to identify, such as great big fat pork chops. Once the table was cleared, I then had to imagine it with all the foods that I would like to eat. I could see strawberrys and watermelons as clear as day. Lots of fruit and healthy foods.
The Hypnotist was telling me that the foods I use to crave would become invisibile to me, I would see them but it would be like I was looking through them as they no longer had any importance to me.
What was really bizzare was how I felt afterwards. I had to go into the city shopping. Normally I spent most of my visit conscious of the food halls and wendys milk shakes. I didn't bat an eyelid.
I had to stop at the supermarket on the way home to get some strawberrys and fish for tea. Freaky.
Be interesting to see how long it all lasts. BTW she gave me an affirmation CD to play in the car, and a relaxation cd I have to play at home
It's been hot here today, so we waited for it to cool down before OH and I walked the dogs around the block together. Very nice walk.
readthemandeat
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This is such a great idea. So much better to reward yourself with something productive and useful rather than a pizza at the end of a healthy week. Good luck and keep me posted on your earnings.
~Tutti~Frutti~
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Sounds like a good day FadeAway I'd like to visit a hypnotist just out of interest!!
Keep up the good work food-wise x
I'd like to visit a hypnotist just out of interest!!Keep up the good work food-wise x
Fade Away
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Okay so my first week and a bit is over and I am REALLY happy with how I went. So much better than I had hoped. My original plan was to try and get myself motivated in any way I could. I am now fully motivated and feel like I have control of my eating. I had hoped that I could try to loose 2kg a month. I know that I was unsure as to whether or not I had got my first scale reading correct, but that is only because I hadn't expected to loose so much. If my first weight was correct, then I have lost 3.5kg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Refining my plan, I have decided that I need to start again fresh each week, look forward and not backwards. Therefore I have taken the $27 I earnt in week 1, put it in an envelope, sealed it and recorded the details on the outside. I plan to continue to do this at the end of every week. Another bonus to this idea is that my wallet is now full of the junky little coins I have been using to pay myself with, so are ready to go around through the money box again.
We are in the middle of some serious heat at the moment so this may affect my outside walking. The aircon is struggling as well as the day heats up, so I need to make an effort to exercise in the morning, or I may find I don't do anything.
Refining my plan, I have decided that I need to start again fresh each week, look forward and not backwards. Therefore I have taken the $27 I earnt in week 1, put it in an envelope, sealed it and recorded the details on the outside. I plan to continue to do this at the end of every week. Another bonus to this idea is that my wallet is now full of the junky little coins I have been using to pay myself with, so are ready to go around through the money box again.
We are in the middle of some serious heat at the moment so this may affect my outside walking. The aircon is struggling as well as the day heats up, so I need to make an effort to exercise in the morning, or I may find I don't do anything.
Fade Away
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Week 2 Sunday to Saturday
Weigh in weight = 96.2kg
$5 = Day 1 -15 minutes on bike
$5 = Day 2 -15 minutes on bike, plus walked dogs 4 ks
$2 = Day 3 - 4k walk with dogs.
$0 = Day 4 - I did actually spend 15 minutes on the bike, but when I checked the diary fro the life of me, I could not remember the 15 minutes I spent
on it on day 1, so I decided not to pay myself today.
$2 = Day 5- 4k walk with dogs
$2 = Day 6 - 4k walk with dogs
$5 = Day 7 - Walked into town to get papers and took one of the dogs, then did a second 4k walk with the other two dogs
$10 for 2kg lost this week
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Total = $31
Weigh in weight = 96.2kg
$5 = Day 1 -15 minutes on bike
$5 = Day 2 -15 minutes on bike, plus walked dogs 4 ks
$2 = Day 3 - 4k walk with dogs.
$0 = Day 4 - I did actually spend 15 minutes on the bike, but when I checked the diary fro the life of me, I could not remember the 15 minutes I spent
on it on day 1, so I decided not to pay myself today.
$2 = Day 5- 4k walk with dogs
$2 = Day 6 - 4k walk with dogs
$5 = Day 7 - Walked into town to get papers and took one of the dogs, then did a second 4k walk with the other two dogs
$10 for 2kg lost this week
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Total = $31
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Fade Away
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So true, how much money would I have wasted each week on a chocolate bar each day, and take away on a friday night.
Fade Away
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Thanks Trusylver. I would expect that this week will be significantly smaller, I think my body was just getting rid of all the christmas junk. Still very pleased though what ever the reason, as it has given me a big boost of motivation, which is what I really needed.3.5 kg is an AWESOME loss in one week, great effort
Fade Away
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Sounds like a good day FadeAway
Keep up the good work food-wise x
I know its not for everyone, but I really feel like it will work for me. You need to have an open mind and be willing to accept the possibility that it may work. As I said in an earlier post it was very much like a yoga relaxation session. The ideas that the hypnosist put in my head (and her councilling) are nothing new. They are the common everyday sensible eating plans that we all know work but choose to ignore. I have noticed that where my head seemed to become quite food focus, my thought patterns have now changed and my headspace seems to be filled with different thought patterns.
Yesterday was a very successful day for me, and I did put it down to the hypnosis session. I worked yesterday. We picked up a group of people, had morning tea and a bit of a chat session. They all ate the chocolate biscuts, but for some strange reason, I just seemed to go without. We then took them out to lunch. Pub meal, with main meal including chips, plus a smorgasboard of sise salads and vegetables. The smorgasboard was a huge choice. Everybody fill their plates. My plate was full, huge!! but I only ate about a third of what was on the plate. I just nibbled at all the different flavors. I was the only person at the table that left food on their plate. I even only ate ONE chip!!
As yesterday was extremely hot we took the group to the pictures. Normally I would have used the group as an excuse to buy big boxes of pop-corn and ice creams etc. Instead we had one little bag of malteses, which they all shared and I had 1.
Included in the hypnotherapy is a relaxation/hypnotherapy CD which I have to listen to everyday for a month. Lisitening to it for the first time today, she talks about how I will not crave the unhealthy foods I have in the past, and if I do choose to eat them, then I will only eat a small piece and be satisfied with that. It certainly was the case yesterday with the chips and chocolate
Veronica2
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Great job on limiting yourself in situations that tend to allow us to indulge! My husband and I prefer to have people over for dinner so that we may control the food being served, how large the portions are, what ingredients are involved, how it is prepped, et cetera.
Congrats on the weight loss this week. Hope next week is just as good!
Congrats on the weight loss this week. Hope next week is just as good!
Fade Away
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Have done well the last two days at work. No snacking at all yesterday or today. Morning tea was hard this morning because they were passing around big plates of party-pies (mini meat pies). Most people had at least three. I managed to resist but was considering having just one. I thought about it so long that I actually missed out. Today we all went out for lunch. Most of the people in the group had either fish 'n' chips, or lasagna. I had the roast lamb, and only ate about a third of it before I was full and stopped eating. I have noticed since last Friday's hypnotherapy I am having no trouble leaving food on my plate when I am full. During the hypnotherapy I turned off the switches in my brain for Chocolate, Lollies, Bread and Coffee. I stopped the coffee as I tend to eat with coffee. Since turning off the switches I haven't had a single cup of coffee; and am not missing it. Today I threw out the loaf of bread I bought on Thursday. It was unopened.
Yesterday was an absolute stinker, 43 degrees Celius, so nobody was thinking too much about exercise. I did manage 15 minutes on the bike, and we walked the dogs just before dark, not that it was any cooler. Cool change came through this afternoon thank goodness, so I took the two older dogs on a 4k walk
Yesterday was an absolute stinker, 43 degrees Celius, so nobody was thinking too much about exercise. I did manage 15 minutes on the bike, and we walked the dogs just before dark, not that it was any cooler. Cool change came through this afternoon thank goodness, so I took the two older dogs on a 4k walk
Fade Away
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Hey,
Your motivational ideas make me laugh!! It's certainly different!
Whatever works for you!
Hey Tutti, its spreading. One of the girls at work has caught the bug. She say's she has developed a really bad habbit of getting stuck into chocolate at night, particularly m&m's. What with the chocolate and all the food at work, she is noticing how much weight she has put on in the last year, but has no motivation to stop. The girl is a single mother, so money is always a bit tight, so what she has decided to do is; everytime she goes to buy a piece of chocolate or a bag of m&m's she is going to put the money into a little purse instead, and see how much she has got in the purse in a months time. Hope it works for her.
I have started a monetary incentive plan for weight loss myself. I thought that since I'm not rich by any means and every bit of money that I have is really important, losing a significant amount of money would really be bad for me. So I set out on a goal last week to drop 90 pounds, from about 270 to about 180, and I hope to accomplish it within the year. I charge myself $10 for every day that I don't workout atleast 30 minutes. I reward myself with $20 for every pound that I lose. So I figure that if on average I work out 4 days a week and lose 2 pounds per week, I will earn $10 per week. I have made a pledge to myself to become healthy and lose weight. At the end of the year I will treat myself to something really nice with the money I earned. If I don't do what I need to do to change my life around I will owe money, and I plan to donate that money to charity. I made sure to tell people I am close to about my plan to keep me accountable at the end of the year. Good luck, I hope you have success with your plan!
~Tutti~Frutti~
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Yeh, I wasn't being sarcastic, I can imagine it's pretty good motivation actually - instead of spending the money on chocolate of naughty food, saving it up and spending it on a new dress or jeans or something that shows off the hard work when you've lost a little.
I definately intend to buy some new bits for my wardrobe when I'm nearer my goal.Hope you're week is going well. x
Fade Away
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Yeh, I wasn't being sarcastic, I can imagine it's pretty good motivation actually - instead of spending the money on chocolate of naughty food, saving it up and spending it on a new dress or jeans or something that shows off the hard work when you've lost a little.
Hope you're week is going well. x
I didn't think you were being sarcatis at all Tutti
